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Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.

Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oms,

or building a playlist that will even get your nun up on the table.

Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.

Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max. You are tuned to the nighttime podcast focused on the set of experiences that have become the key steps in our lives.

Although we're on different paths, when comparing our stories with those of others, more often than not similar experiences

have become the turning points we've taken along the way. Some examples could be our first

broken heart, a first job, or even a high school graduation.

Now as significant as these moments may feel at the time,

what makes them consider coming of age moments

is that we get to look back at them and see how our lives have changed since.

In the story you'll hear tonight, our subject is a 19-year-old who had just moved out of his family

home and into his first apartment. However, after being on his own for just

under three weeks, he simply vanished, leaving behind a little more than a puzzling phone call.

Although no one has been able to say for certain, it's

reasonable to think something tragic happened while in the midst of one of

lives most common coming-of-age experiences. In tonight's episode, our topic will be the 1998 disappearance of then

19-year-old Troy Cook. Our guest will be the last person to see Troy, his father

Tom Cook.

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